Meet the world’s animals.

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• Delta Amacuro Softtail Thripophaga amacurensis

  

  A softtail known from seasonally flooded forest in the southern Orinoco Delta of Venezuela. Fine pale streaks mark its back and underparts.

• Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater Acanthagenys rufogularis

  The Spiny-cheeked Honeyeater is widespread on mainland Australia. Adults have distinctive cheek feathers, and a study in inland New South Wales recorded movements associated with flowers and fruit.

• Yellow-naped Amazon Amazona auropalliata

  The Yellow-naped Amazon is a parrot whose green feathers blend into forest foliage as it flies and feeds in flocks.

• American Black Duck Anas rubripes

  A duck of shallow wetlands in eastern North America. It is dark brown overall and can be hard to distinguish among Mallards.

• Black-necked Eremomela Eremomela atricollis

  It has a black face mask, yellow forehead and eyebrow, and yellow chin and throat bordered in black. Hall's Angola field account found it in tall and stunted Brachystegia woodland, where it actively searched leaves for insects.

• Little Green Sunbird Anthreptes seimundi

  A small sunbird of the Afrotropical region, found in dense secondary growth, forest clearings, and edges. Skin notes report that the throat and upper breast are often yellowish but can also be olive.

• Bar-breasted Piculet Picumnus aurifrons

  The Bar-breasted Piculet is a small woodpecker of the Amazon forest canopy. Males have an orange forehead, which females lack.

• Chinese White-browed Rosefinch Carpodacus dubius

  This rosefinch occurs in China's highlands. Species data describe shrubland and semi-open habitat at high elevation; a historical adult-male account records a silvery forehead and throat and rosy cheeks.

• Mauritius Bulbul Hypsipetes olivaceus

  This bulbul lives in forests on Mauritius. Its grayish body is topped by a loose, pointed dark crest. It eats insects, seeds and fruit, and its range is confined to the island.

• Green pheasant Phasianus versicolor

  A long-tailed bird of open woods, grassland and farmland in Japan. Males and females differ markedly in colour.

• Rufous-backed Sibia Leioptila annectens

  A sibia of montane forests from the eastern Himalayas through Myanmar to northern Vietnam. Its subspecies occupy separate parts of the range.

• Ruddy-capped Nightingale-Thrush Catharus frantzii

  This thrush lives in mountain forests from Mexico to Panama. A gray breast and pale orange lower bill help identify it, and it forages on the ground and in fruiting trees or shrubs.

• White-eared Brown Dove Phapitreron leucotis

  The White-eared Brown Dove is a small dove endemic to the Philippines. It has a gray crown, green or violet iridescence, a brown breast, and a pale belly.

• Plain-breasted Hawk Accipiter ventralis

  This small hawk occurs in Andean mountain forest and cloud forest. Its plumage is variable; one adult-male form in the guide has reddish-brown flanks and thighs.

• Pacific Elaenia Myiopagis subplacens

  This small tyrant flycatcher ranges through the Tumbesian region of western Ecuador and northwestern Peru. A broad white eyebrow and yellow crown patch help identify it.

• Baird's Sparrow Centronyx bairdii

  Baird’s Sparrow lives in North American grasslands. It has a short tail and a flat head, and runs through grass while looking for food.

• Fawn-breasted Tanager Pipraeidea melanonota

  The Fawn-breasted Tanager has a blue crown and dark facial markings. A São Paulo city account describes males with a blue crown, bluish-black back and wings, and fawn underparts; females and young birds are duller. It eats insects and fruit.

• Red-capped Robin-Chat Cossypha natalensis

  Its orange face, throat, belly, and tail contrast with a blue-gray back. It searches for insects in leaf litter, and most of its population is in southern Africa.

• Common Hawk-Cuckoo Hierococcyx varius

  The Common Hawk-Cuckoo uses forest and farmland edges. It feeds on invertebrates in trees and moves seasonally.

• Woodhouse's Scrub Jay Aphelocoma woodhouseii

  This jay occurs from Nevada south into Mexico in dry shrublands and pinyon-juniper woodland. Its muted blue plumage is set off by gray-brown and white.

• Pearl-spotted Owlet Glaucidium perlatum

  The Pearl-spotted Owlet has white spots on its back and eye-like markings on the back of its head. It catches small animals in open savanna and woodland.

• Blue-bearded Helmetcrest Oxypogon cyanolaemus

  The Blue-bearded Helmetcrest was recorded in the highlands of Colombia’s Sierra Nevada de Santa Marta. During a 2015 survey, observers saw it feeding at flowering plants.

• Black Bushbird Neoctantes niger

  This small antbird lives in Amazonian forest understory. Near Peru’s Manu National Park, a male was recorded attending a nest hung low in dense vegetation.

• Collared Lory Vini solitaria

  This red-and-green parrot occurs in Fiji and has a short tail and purple-black crown. It feeds on flowers and fruit and nests in tree cavities.